Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area. It also contains a connection to the New York City Subway at Grand Central–42nd Street station. The terminal is the second-busiest train station in North America, after New York Penn Station.^[1]

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Grand Central Terminal is featured in Toxic Revenge.

MoreMethane — Methane begins to fill the tunnels.

It was introduced in 5 days after people when 5 hundred million gallons of raw sewage overwhelmed pipes and spilled out into New York's waterways and methane gas is finding its way into the city's rail and subway tunnels where the ultimate destination for much of it is the area around Grand Central Terminal, being sits on one of the highest natural points in Manhattan. Steven S. Ross stated that one of the dangers is the collection of gas especially during spring where there's a lot of water and bacterial growth making it to collect small amounts of gas naturally in the platform area and the terminal. Ventilation intakes inside the terminal would normally clear the area of dangerous fumes, but without power, it won't work anymore and wherever methane flows unchecked, the risk of an explosion would soon follows.

MetLifeBuildingExplosion — Methane explodes beneath the MetLife Building.

In 10 years after people, Grand Central Terminal became a gathering place for owls that is once visited daily by half a million people. Methane gas has been building up in rail tunnels below, but the Grand Central Terminal is not in the most danger because the tracks don't run under it. Steven S. Ross stated that the tracks are under the MetLife Building being beside Grand Central Terminal and explains that people don't realize the original railroad terminology with a terminal is where the tracks end. Other toxic fumes are mixing with the methane in the tunnels below the MetLife Building next door where the presence of volatile materials is creating a dangerous cocktail of gases which begins to oxidize by oxygen and explodes into fire, where a ball of flames erupts from the tunnels below shattering the bottom floors of the MetLife Building and the silence of New York City. In 60 years after people, the MetLife Building is falling to pieces and 6 decades of neglect have assaulted the building steel and glass facade, meaning that the Grand Central Terminal is in the line of fire. Steven S. Ross stated that the Grand Central Terminal has a near mortal enemy right next door and he expect to see sections of the facade of the MetLife Building to fall onto the roof.

MetLifeBuildingSouthward — The MetLife Building collapse.

Its fate is revealed in 150 years after people when the MetLife Building finally breaks and a giant section falls southward which tumbles onto the roof of Grand Central Terminal, destroying the entire interior and the roof of the terminal. But despite the attack, the 4 granite walls still stand. Steven S. Ross stated that the outside walls are very thick granite and hold themselves up. He then explains that the Grand Central Terminal was more than 50 years old when the MetLife Building was built next to it and yet even with the head start on aging, the Grand Central Terminal would still be recognizable as a building 250 years to even 500 years after people.